Search has changed everything. Search has become woven into our everyday lives, and permeates offline as well as online activities.
Every business should have a search strategy. How a business appears online can impact consumer influence as much as if not more than offline advertising like TV commercials. A business's search strategy can have a dramatic impact on how consumers interact with that business.
But even more importantly, search engine activity provides amazingly useful data about customer behavior, needs, and motivations. Accessing search data is like conducting focus groups with millions of people for free. Search isn't just for marketers and techies. It can provide valuable insight on business strategy and product strategy.
Companies of all sizes - from startups to global enterprise level corporations, and even businesses without web sites - can benefit from understanding how consumers are searching for them and talking about them online, both as a powerful acquisition channel and a vast repository of market research.
In this non-technical book forexecutives, business owners, marketers, and product managers, search engine strategy guru Vanessa Fox-who created Google's portal for site owners, Googgle Webmaster Central -explains what every marketer or business owner needs to understand about how search rankings work, how to use search to better understand your customers and attract new ones, how to develop a comprehensive search strategy for your business, and how to build execution of this strategy into the businesses processes. This isn't another book about paid search for advertisers. This book focuses on organic listings - the unpaid results that receive 86% of searcher clicks.
Written by search engine guru Vanessa Fox, formerly Google's search engine strategy spokesperson and creator of Google Webmaster Central
Explains from a businessperson's perspective how to develop a successful search engine strategy
Shows how to use the easily accessible data from search engines to increase qualified traffic, better understand customers, and strengthen customer relationships
Reveals how smaller companies can leverage search engine marketing to achieve parity with larger brands
With this book in hand, every businessperson will have the knowledge and the tools to maximize the potential of search engine marketing to build a brand, draw new prospects, and generate sales. In the age of Google, your customers are searching.
Will they find you?
In today's searching world, customers turn to online search engines first. Yet many companies simply don't realize acquiring customers from search engines should be a core business strategy. Instead, they usually focus on narrow goals, such as boosting page rankings. These oversights leave a huge channel for engaging with potential customers largely untapped. Businesses that use data about how people search to inform their product strategy will reach customers before the competition. Businesses that understand the importance of non-ad-based search acquisition will make it central to their marketing mix, and can connect with high-quality customers for long-term growth and success.
Marketing in the Age of Google is a practical guide to harnessing the full power of online search for your business. Written by former Google employee Vanessa Fox, who created Google's official portal for explaining online search to businesses, this clear, non-technical book demystifies search marketing and explains proven methods you can implement at your business today.
Not another book on AdWords campaigns, Marketing in the Age of Google instead focuses on making your business stand out in the "organic" searches that attract 86 percent of user clicks. Fox shows you where companies get hung up with rankings, and lays out a comprehensive approach for achieving the search goal that matters most: connecting with the people who want to find you.
You'll also discover how to:
Integrate search strategy into all aspects of your business
Cut through the data and get the actionable metrics you need
Use data about what people are searching for as a valuable market research tool
Get your company found through social media
And more!
Whether you're a sole proprietor or you work for a major global brand, Marketing in the Age of Google will help you fully integrate search into your business and marketing activities--and give you a major advantage over competitors. "Former Googler Vanessa Fox has a unique understanding of search marketing from both sides of the table, and has been educating people about the world of Google and search marketing through speaking and writing for years. She thoughtfully guides marketers past jargon and distractions to focus on the best ways to reach customers in today's 'searching' culture."
--DANNY SULLIVAN, Editor in Chief, Search Engine Land
This may be the first book that manages to identify and deconstruct the new search engine-centric world in whic
Every business should have a search strategy. How a business appears online can impact consumer influence as much as if not more than offline advertising like TV commercials. A business's search strategy can have a dramatic impact on how consumers interact with that business.
But even more importantly, search engine activity provides amazingly useful data about customer behavior, needs, and motivations. Accessing search data is like conducting focus groups with millions of people for free. Search isn't just for marketers and techies. It can provide valuable insight on business strategy and product strategy.
Companies of all sizes - from startups to global enterprise level corporations, and even businesses without web sites - can benefit from understanding how consumers are searching for them and talking about them online, both as a powerful acquisition channel and a vast repository of market research.
In this non-technical book forexecutives, business owners, marketers, and product managers, search engine strategy guru Vanessa Fox-who created Google's portal for site owners, Googgle Webmaster Central -explains what every marketer or business owner needs to understand about how search rankings work, how to use search to better understand your customers and attract new ones, how to develop a comprehensive search strategy for your business, and how to build execution of this strategy into the businesses processes. This isn't another book about paid search for advertisers. This book focuses on organic listings - the unpaid results that receive 86% of searcher clicks.
Written by search engine guru Vanessa Fox, formerly Google's search engine strategy spokesperson and creator of Google Webmaster Central
Explains from a businessperson's perspective how to develop a successful search engine strategy
Shows how to use the easily accessible data from search engines to increase qualified traffic, better understand customers, and strengthen customer relationships
Reveals how smaller companies can leverage search engine marketing to achieve parity with larger brands
With this book in hand, every businessperson will have the knowledge and the tools to maximize the potential of search engine marketing to build a brand, draw new prospects, and generate sales. In the age of Google, your customers are searching.
Will they find you?
In today's searching world, customers turn to online search engines first. Yet many companies simply don't realize acquiring customers from search engines should be a core business strategy. Instead, they usually focus on narrow goals, such as boosting page rankings. These oversights leave a huge channel for engaging with potential customers largely untapped. Businesses that use data about how people search to inform their product strategy will reach customers before the competition. Businesses that understand the importance of non-ad-based search acquisition will make it central to their marketing mix, and can connect with high-quality customers for long-term growth and success.
Marketing in the Age of Google is a practical guide to harnessing the full power of online search for your business. Written by former Google employee Vanessa Fox, who created Google's official portal for explaining online search to businesses, this clear, non-technical book demystifies search marketing and explains proven methods you can implement at your business today.
Not another book on AdWords campaigns, Marketing in the Age of Google instead focuses on making your business stand out in the "organic" searches that attract 86 percent of user clicks. Fox shows you where companies get hung up with rankings, and lays out a comprehensive approach for achieving the search goal that matters most: connecting with the people who want to find you.
You'll also discover how to:
Integrate search strategy into all aspects of your business
Cut through the data and get the actionable metrics you need
Use data about what people are searching for as a valuable market research tool
Get your company found through social media
And more!
Whether you're a sole proprietor or you work for a major global brand, Marketing in the Age of Google will help you fully integrate search into your business and marketing activities--and give you a major advantage over competitors. "Former Googler Vanessa Fox has a unique understanding of search marketing from both sides of the table, and has been educating people about the world of Google and search marketing through speaking and writing for years. She thoughtfully guides marketers past jargon and distractions to focus on the best ways to reach customers in today's 'searching' culture."
--DANNY SULLIVAN, Editor in Chief, Search Engine Land
This may be the first book that manages to identify and deconstruct the new search engine-centric world in whic